Abstract
Arjun Appadurai1 argues that the polycentric dispersion of the contemporary media, technology, and financial flows has progressed. This claim for popular culture scholarship draws an attention to how producers, filmmakers, and distributors within the marginal media industry have been competing with globally dominant media counterparts. Recently, South Korean (hereafter Korean) media industry has been encouraging reconsidering the role of nation-state in transnational cultural flows as well as in regional media collaborations. Unprecedentedly, the Korean Wave triggered the Korean media industry to take the forefront in international media exchange.2 The Korean Wave has becomes an indication of a global-local interconnection of media in respect to production, distribution, and reproduction. On the whole, multilateral streams of the Korean media content evoke a proactive transformation of the Korean media industry. While the Korean media industry had been regarded as a peripheral system, today the Korean media have reached broader than ever in the international market and have strengthened the scope of media practices and commercial impacts. It is noted that the heyday of Korean popular culture is a sign of the resurgence of Asian media after the Hong Kong film boom during the 1980s and the early 1990s.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Bibliography
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1996.
Cho, Haejeong. “Reading the Korean Wave as a Sign of Global Shift.” Korea Journal 45 (2005): 147–182.
Choi, He-suk. “FTC steps into dispute in TV drama copyright.” Korea Herald. Accessed October 19, 2009. http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/us/lnacademic/delivery/printDoc.do?jobH.html.
Gershon, Richard. “The Transnational Media Corporation: Environmental Scanning and Strategy Formation.” Journal of Media Economics 13 (2000): 81–101.
Guilianotti, Richard, and Roland Robertson. “Forms of Glocalization: Globalization and the Migration Strategies of Scottish Football fans in North America.” Sociology 41 (2000): 133–152.
Ha, Jongwon, and Eunkyung Yang. “East Asian Television Programs’ Regionalization and the Korean Wave.” Bangsong Yeongu 67 (2002): 67–103.
Han, Sang-hee. “Local Dramas Enduring with Support In and Out.” Korea Times, February 17, 2009.
Hall, Stuart. “New Cultures for Old.” In A Place in the World? Places, Cultures and Globalization, edited by Doreen B. Massey and Pat M. Jess, 175–211. Oxford: Open University, 1995.
Hannerz, Ulf. “Scenarios for Peripheral Cultures.” In Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity, edited by Anthony D. King, 107–28. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Huang, Shuling. “Nation-branding and Transnational Consumption: Japan-mania and the Korean Wave in Taiwan.” Media, Culture & Society 33 (2011): 3–18.
Iwabuchi, Koichi. Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002.
Joo, Jeongsuk. “Transnationalization of Korean Popular Culture and the Rise of Pop Nationalism in Korea.” The Journal of Popular Culture 44 (2011): 489–504.
Jung, Eun-Young. “Transnational Korea: A Critical Assessment of the Korean Wave in Asia and the United States.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies 31 (2009): 69–80.
KBI Focus. “The Annual Review of the Korean Broadcast Content Business in 2010.” Focus 33 (2011). Korea Creative Content Agency.
KBS Global. TV/Drama. http://english.kbs.co.kr/tv/index.html.
Kim, Hyunmee. “Korean TV Dramas in Taiwan: With an Emphasis on the Localization Process.” Korea Journal 45 (2005): 183–205.
Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism. http://www.mcst.go.kr/english/index.jsp.
Lee, Hyowon. “Bae, Choi to voice ‘Winter Sonata’ Cartoon.” Korea Times, May 30, 2008. Accessed June 2, 2008. http://www.lexisnexis.com.
Lee, Keehyeung. “Mapping out the Cultural Politics of “the Korean Wave” in Contemporary South Korea.” In East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave, edited by Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi, 175–189. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
Lee, Unhyuk. “IRIS goes to Asia.” Accessed October 13, 2009. http://www.newsen.com.
MBC homepage. http://www.imbc.com.
Onishi, Norimitsu. “What’s Korean for ‘real man?’ Ask a Japanese woman.” New York Times, December 23, 2004.
Ritzer, George. Globalization: The Essentials. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Robertson, Roland. “Globalisation or Glocalisation.” Journal of International Communication 1 (1994): 33–52.
Robertson, Roland. “Glocalization: Time-space and Homogeneity–Heterogeneity.” In Global Modernities, edited by Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, and Roland Robertson, 25–44. London, Thousand Oaks, CA, and New Delhi: Sage, 1995.
Roudometof, Victor. “Glocalization, Space, and Modernity.” European Legacy 8 (2003): 37–60.
Russell, Mark James. Pop goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008.
Ryoo, Woongjae. “Globalization, or the Logic of Cultural Hybridization: The Case of the Korean Wave.” Asian Journal of Communication 19 (2009): 137–151.
Shim, Doobo, and Jin, Dalyong. “Transformations and Development of the Korean Broadcasting Media.” In Negotiating Democracy: Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies, edited by Isaac A. Blankson and Patrick D. Murphy, 161–176. New York: State University of New York Press, 2007.
“South Korean Drama Attracts Huge Audiences in Japan.” Yonhap. Accessed October 19, 2009. http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/us/lnacademic/delivery/printDoc.do?jobH.html.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 2014 Yasue Kuwahara
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Ju, H. (2014). Transformations of the Korean Media Industry by the Korean Wave: The Perspective of Glocalization. In: Kuwahara, Y. (eds) The Korean Wave. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350282_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350282_3
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-46832-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-35028-2
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture CollectionLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)